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Grasshopper Pilot: A Memoir by Julian William Cummings 9781606352670
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91During World War II the ability of American ground forces to advance in the face of fierce resistance was largely dependent on the precision of artillery barrages. Aerial observation was frequently... -
Untouched by the Conflict: The Civil War Letters of Singelton Ashenfelter, Dickinson College by Jonathan W. White 9781606353837
Booksplease Price: €39.22A rare glimpse into the life of one young man who chose not to fightNearly three million white men of military age remained in the North during the Civil War, some attending institutions of higher... -
Roses in December: A Story of Love and Alzheimer's by Tom Batiuk 9781606352649
Booksplease Price: €39.29Since its debut in 1987, Crankshaft has engendered reader loyalty and affection with its wry wit, engaging storylines, and identifiable characters. Created by Tom Batiuk and drawn by Chuck Ayers, the... -
The Printer's Kiss: The Life and Letters of a Civil War Newspaperman and His Family by Patricia A. Donohoe 9781606352168
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €37.39In language that resonates with power and beauty, this compilation of personal letters written from 1844 to 1864 tells the compelling story of controversial newspaper editor Will Tomlinson, his... -
Speak English!: The Rise of Latinos in Baseball by Rafael Hermoso 9781606351673
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.91Latinos dominate baseball today, leading off the lineups of the best teams, making contenders strong up the middle, or helping to anchor pitching staffs. Vladimir Guerrero, Omar Vizquel, and Mariano... -
On Lincoln: Civil War History Readers by John T. Hubbell 9781606352007
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third... -
Classic Cavs: The 50 Greatest Games in Cleveland Cavaliers History by Jonathan Knight 9781606352816
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91This brand-new edition of Classic Cavs counts down the fifty greatest Cleveland Cavaliers games, from their 67-loss inaugural NBA season in 1970-71 through the franchise's renaissance following the... -
Citizens and Communities: Civil war History Readers, Volume 4 by J. Matthew Gallman 9781606352472
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €24.30For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America's greatest struggle. Civil War History Readers reintroduce the most influential... -
The Promise of LeBron James: The Rise, Fall from Grace, and Redemption of Ohio's Own Bill Livingston 9781606354841
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60The story of LeBron James through the eyes of a Cleveland sports insider LeBron James has been a polarizing yet beloved figure for sports fans around the world, possibly nowhere more so than in... -
Bloody Dawn: The Story of the Lawrence Massacre by 9780873384766
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.60On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had... -
Spur Up Your Pegasus: Family Letters of Salmon, Kate, and Nettie Chase, 1844-1873 by 9780873389884
RRP: €66.64Booksplease Price: €55.26Married three times, Salmon P. Chase lost four children in infancy. Two daughters survived to adulthood and were their father's companions during his service as a U.S. senator from Ohio, governor of... -
From Broadway to Cleveland: A History of the Hanna Theatre by 9780873389051
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.85This is a noteworthy history of Cleveland's showcase for touring shows. Built by Daniel R. Hanna as a tribute to his theater-loving father, Marcus Hanna, the Hanna Theatre opened its doors on March... -
The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time by 9780873386838
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €15.20What would the world be like if history had taken a different course? Science fiction literature has long contemplated this interesting question. The Alternate History: Refiguring Historical Time... -
The Cincinnati Reds by 9780873388863
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €22.92First published in 1948, Lee Allen's history of the Reds, like Franklin Lewis's history of the Cleveland Indians, was originally published by G. P. Putnam's Sons. Allen narrates the historic... -
Seeking the Sacred in Contemporary Religious Architecture by Douglas Hoffman 9781606350478
RRP: €34.50Booksplease Price: €28.91A compelling study of what makes a sacred place sacred From ancient temp les to modern churches, synagogues, and mosques, architects throughout history have invested their creative energies to design... -
The Pattern in the Web: Mythical Poetry of Charles Williams by The Kent State University Press 9780873384124
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €22.35Charles Williams has achieved considerable reputation for his novels. He has been recognized as a brilliant theologian and a sensitive literary critic. But Williams himself wished most to be... -
Reading Hemingway's A Farewell to Arms: Glossary and Commentary by Michael Kim Roos 9781606353769
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €31.68In this comprehensive guide, Lewis and Roos reveal how A Farewell to Arms represents a complex alchemy of Hemingway's personal experience as a Red Cross ambulance driver in 1918, his extensive... -
At the Forefront of Lee's Invasion: Retribution, Plunder, and Clashing Cultures on Richard S. Ewell's Road to Gettysburg by Robert J. Wynstra 9781606353547
RRP: €49.98Booksplease Price: €39.98After clearing Virginia's Shenandoah Valley of Federal troops, Gen. Robert E. Lee's bold invasion into the North reached the Maryland shore of the Potomac River on June 15, 1863. A week later, the... -
Brainwashing: A Study in Cold War Demonology by 9780873388139
RRP: €54.74Booksplease Price: €43.67An examination of the literary and cinematic representations of brainwashing during the Cold War era. The term ""brainwashing"" coined during the Korean War, was popularised by a CIA operative who... -
Meade's Army: The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman by 9780873389013
RRP: €47.60Booksplease Price: €40.40Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally... -
In the Wake of the Butcher: Clevelands's Torso Murders by James Jessen Badal 9781606352137
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €19.00In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badal's In the Wake of the Butcher: Cleveland's Torso Murders-the first book to examine the horrific series of unsolved dismemberment... -
Ohio's Grand Canal: A Brief History of the Ohio and Erie Canal by 9780873389846
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €13.09This is a one-volume history of the Ohio and Erie Canal. By linking Ohio's two major bodies of water - the Ohio River and Lake Erie - Ohio's canals, built in the early nineteenth century, caused... -
Teaching Hemingway and the Natural World by Kevin Maier 9781606353189
RRP: €32.12Booksplease Price: €27.62Ernest Hemingway is a writer we often associate with particular places and animals; Michigan's Upper Peninsula, Spain's countryside, East Africa's game reserves, Cuba's blue water, and Idaho's sage-... -
Local Fauna by Brian Brodeur 9781606352373
Booksplease Price: €6.35"Local Fauna opens with a meta-poem about Jack Spicer, and I couldn't help but think of his 'dictated' poetry, poetry as vessel, poetry getting down what needs to be said. Brian Brodeur's poems have... -
Letters to Lalage: Letters of Charles Williams to Lois Lang-Sims by 9780873383981
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873383981Author The Kent State University PressFormat PaperbackImprint -
War, Memory, and the 1913 Gettysburg Reunion by Thomas R. Flagel 9781606354704
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €15.91Union and Confederate veterans meet at Gettysburg on the 50th anniversary of the battle This June 29-July 4 reunion drew over 55,000 official attendees plus thousands more who descended upon a town... -
Classic Reds: The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Red History by Joe Heffron 9781606353134
RRP: €17.84Booksplease Price: €16.14Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make... -
Civil War Prisons by William Best Hesseltine 9780873381291
RRP: €16.65Booksplease Price: €14.97First published in 1962 as a special edition of Civil War History journal, Civil War Prisons remains the standard on the topic. Editor Hesseltine tackles the historiography of northern and southern... -
A New Book of the Grotesques: Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction by 9780873388276
RRP: €38.08Booksplease Price: €32.25Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form and a major influence... -
House of Horrors: The Shocking True Story of Anthony Sowell, the Cleveland Strangler by Robert Sberna 9781606351864
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €15.91The perverse world of a sexual sadist who terrorized women on Cleveland's East SideTo his neighbors on Imperial Avenue in Cleveland, Ohio, Anthony Sowell was a quiet and helpful former Marine who... -
Whole Oceans Away: Melville and the Pacific by 9780873388931
Booksplease Price: €72.26Herman Melville had a lifelong fascination with the Pacific and with the diverse island cultures that dotted this vast ocean. The essays in this collection articulate the intersection of Western and... -
The Business of Captivity: Elmira and Its Civil War Prison by Michael P. Gray 9781606352663
RRP: €27.36Booksplease Price: €23.94One of the many controversial issues to emerge from the Civil War was the treatment of prisoners of war. At two stockades, the Confederate prison at Andersonville, Georgia, and the Union prison at... -
The Boundaries Between Us: Natives and Newcomers Along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850 by Daniel P. Barr 9781606351093
Booksplease Price: €53.51New essays on the settlement of the Old Northwest Although much has been written about the Old Northwest territory, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by... -
Animals of Ohio's Ponds and Vernal Pools by David Fitzsimmons 9781606350812
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €28.66A fascinating and beautiful guide to Ohio's extraordinary wetland wildlifeThe Buckeye State's many ponds and vernal pools are populated by a dizzying variety of wildlife. Animals of Ohio's Ponds and... -
Why Cows Learn Dutch: And Other Secrets of the Amish Farm by 9780873388238
RRP: €24.98Booksplease Price: €20.49In Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of the Amish Farm, Randy James offers an engaging view of Amish farm life, society, and values. An agricultural extension agent for twenty years, James works... -
A Guide to Greater Cleveland's Sacred Landmarks by Lloyd R. Ellis 9781606351215
RRP: €42.84Booksplease Price: €34.75An informative guide to the Cleveland area’s houses of worshipThe sacred landmarks of Cleveland and the surrounding area provide a fascinating array of architectural styles and often serve as visual... -
Death Throes of a Dynasty: Letters and Diaries of Charles and Bessie Ewing, Missionaries to China by 9780873384148
Booksplease Price: €32.01The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the century China. In addition to discussing their missionary activities in... -
They Have Left Us Here to Die: The Civil War Prison Diary of Sgt. Lyle G. Adair, 111th U.S. Colored Infantry by Glenn Robins 9781606351017
RRP: €28.55Booksplease Price: €27.83The chronicle of a Union soldier's seven months in captivity Besides the risks of death or wounding in combat, the average Civil War soldier faced the constant threat of being captured by the enemy... -
The Complete Funky Winkerbean: 1978-1980 by Tom Batiuk 9781606351918
Booksplease Price: €47.74The Funkyverse continues to expand In this third volume, award-winning cartoonist Tom Batiuk continues to chronicle the lives of a group of students from the fictitious Westview High School. Funky... -
Opening Day: Cleveland, the Indians, and a New Beginning by 9780873388153
Booksplease Price: €10.66Opening Day is sportswriter Jonathan Knight's inning-by-inning look at the opening game at Jacobs Field on April 4, 1994. New home to the Cleveland Indians, ""The Jake"" was for fans symbolic of the...